Tuesday Pulse - The containment gap: when can you actually stop an AI agent?

An AI agent doesn't wait for you to notice it made a mistake. That's the whole point of an agent, and it's also the whole risk. By the time you'd step in, the email's sent, the record's changed, the money's moved. This Tuesday Pulse session is about the containment gap: the distance between where an AI error shows up and the last point a human can still catch it and reverse it. As you move from a prompt you read, to an assistant that drafts for you, to an agent that acts on its own, that gap doesn't widen gradually. It falls off a cliff. Built for owner-led services businesses under 30 people. No computer science required. What we cover: The three rungs of autonomy: prompt, assistant, agent, and why your ability to catch an error changes at each one The one rule that keeps you out of trouble: autonomy should never exceed reversibility A real worked example: a bookkeeping firm's client-email agent, the three ways it breaks, and the small redesign that closes the gap Blast radius: why an agent's permissions matter as much as its intelligence How this ties back to SOPs, clean data, an AI point-person, hidden API and token costs, shadow AI, and governance The 10-minute action you can run this week: find the most autonomous AI tool in your business, write down the one step it takes that you can't easily undo, and check whether a human approves it before it happens. If not, you just found your containment gap. Not sure what's already running in your business, or where it can act without you? Start with the free AI Blind Spots Check. 25 questions, about three minutes, no registration. → check.cibicreative.com More Tuesday Pulse: AI sessions: →    • Tuesday Pulse: AI   Cibi Creative helps small business owners adopt AI without the expensive regret. Clarity before tools. Systems before hype. cibicreative.com #AIagents #SmallBusiness #AIgovernance #ShadowAI #AIstrategy #ArtificialIntelligence #BusinessAutomation #AIreadiness